Next Door to War
Tariq Ali: After Benazir, 17 July 2008
Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid.
Allen Lane, 484 pp., £25, July 2008,978 0 7139 9843 6 Show More
by Ahmed Rashid.
Allen Lane, 484 pp., £25, July 2008,
Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars within
by Shuja Nawaz.
Oxford, 655 pp., £16.99, May 2008,978 0 19 547660 6 Show More
by Shuja Nawaz.
Oxford, 655 pp., £16.99, May 2008,
“... the widower Bhutto to power. The Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by the ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, came second nationally, but emerged as the largest party in the largest province, the Punjab, where Nawaz’s younger brother Shahbaz is now ensconced as chief minister. In the Frontier Province, the secular Awami ... ”
